I love how the comments section has become a gifted child commiseration zone.
I also wonder what my life would have been like if my mother hadn't decided to homeschool me from third grade to the start of high school. (True, the reason she decided to homeschool me was, in theory, because my second grade teacher had moved me to the front of the classroom when I started having trouble seeing the board rather than, y'know, letting my parents know I might need glasses, but there were also already signs that I didn't fit in with my peer group. Like my favorite recess pastime being the reading of Redwall books when everyone else wouldn't read something without pictures on every other page, and only did that reading when required.)
I should note that after the first couple of years, my mother's strategy for homeschooling me was to pretty much just make sure I had workbooks and textbooks for math and science and history on hand and I could work my way through them at my own pace, while reading as many books as I possibly could.
Public high school was pretty rough, but mainly because I had no mechanism to deal with being SO. VERY. BORED. in the classes geared towards the average student, even if it was the average honors student.
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Date: 2014-11-10 05:24 pm (UTC)I also wonder what my life would have been like if my mother hadn't decided to homeschool me from third grade to the start of high school. (True, the reason she decided to homeschool me was, in theory, because my second grade teacher had moved me to the front of the classroom when I started having trouble seeing the board rather than, y'know, letting my parents know I might need glasses, but there were also already signs that I didn't fit in with my peer group. Like my favorite recess pastime being the reading of Redwall books when everyone else wouldn't read something without pictures on every other page, and only did that reading when required.)
I should note that after the first couple of years, my mother's strategy for homeschooling me was to pretty much just make sure I had workbooks and textbooks for math and science and history on hand and I could work my way through them at my own pace, while reading as many books as I possibly could.
Public high school was pretty rough, but mainly because I had no mechanism to deal with being SO. VERY. BORED. in the classes geared towards the average student, even if it was the average honors student.